Fr. Frank Pavone

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As it has been widely reported, President Obama spent some time chatting up Obamacare to the Catholic Health Association on Wednesday. While most of the mainstream media reported on his dire warnings about any potential repeal of the law, only the pro-life media reported on his comments about the dignity and rights of every human being.

The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, blocked key parts of a 2013 Texas law that required abortion clinics to meet minimum health and safety standards. The effect of the law was the effectual closing of eight of the state's abortion clinics, but the Supreme Court's Texas order allowed these clinics to reopen.

Priests for Life (PFL) has joined with Catholic Action to file an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to accept a case involving the state of Louisiana’s attempt to force the Catholic Church to violate its sacrament of confession.

“Despite this new announcement, we are proceeding full speed ahead with our lawsuit, which already had oral arguments on May 8 in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and which is therefore likely to be the first of the religious non-profit cases against the mandate to be decided at the appellate level.

Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, today celebrated the announcement that the Lebanon Road Surgery Center in Sharonville, Ohio will no longer perform abortions because it is unable to obtain a patient transfer agreement with a local hospital.

Today, the 41st anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions that legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and for any reason, I am urging Americans to take action to bring about the end of abortion.

Rather than answer a simple question, Nancy Pelosi has criticized me and Priests for Life for raising the life issue in an open letter, calling us arrogant, medieval, hysterical, and disconnected from the Church.

At a Mass during which our new Pope emphasized the duty public officials have to protect the weakest among us, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi have the audacity to receive Communion while publicly renouncing their responsibility to protect the weakest among us.

(Editor's Note: The following is a letter from Fr. Frank Pavone of the National Director of Priests for Life and the President of the National Pro-life Religious Council regarding Terri Schindler-Schiavo.) The case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo is a test for all of us.It's not a test of whether we will kill cognitively disabled people by refusing them food and water. That's a test we've already failed, because it happens routinely throughout thecountry.